Thursday, March 01, 2007

Mid-Week Musings

1. Paul Hellyer has proven himself to, yet again, be a man of ideas. His solution for global warming? Use alien technology. Had he simply brought up this idea a year ago, I think the Draft Paul Hellyer campaign would have been a lot more successful.

2. Speaking of Kyoto solutions which will never ever happen in a million years, Toby Heaps (who crown Mulroney the greenest PM) has proposed his Kyoto plan which includes, among other things, a 10 cent gas tax. The article also mentions how the Liberals are now considering a carbon tax.

When talking to Liberal friends and relatives about the Liberal leadership race, I said I thought Dion was the best of the bunch, unimpressive as they were.Dion has turned out to be a small disaster. Of course the Liberals dropped in the polls after Chretien won the leadership and they went on to do quite well.The difference this time is that Dion made the environment the big issue and it turns out Canadians see him as the Pat Boone of the green movement and Elizabeth May as the Little Richard of the green movement. Why settle for the pale imitation?